Hi,
I've updated to FRX5 yesterday, and so far much better/faster than FRX4.
Camera and camcorder works fine.
Battery life for me is similar to FRX04.

The old issues still unsolved (at lest for me) are:
a) Bluetooth not working (for me the most important to use it on daily basis):
- Calls: even if paired with my handsfree, and you pickup the call with it, voice is not going throught the handsfree.
- Music: it goes thorugh the handsfree, but suffering heavy audio shutering.
b) Skype not signing in.
c) Facebook don't sync contacts.

Brgds

a)BT as always... still no devs onto it AFAIK
b) That's Skype's problem, not XDAndroid. There are other original Android devices that can't login too.
c) Not sure where the problem is, but same as a). Could be google's problem too.

I updated my blackstone to the FRX05 last night. First, I only replace the system.ext2 file within the existing andboot folder and after booting it up, it was so slow (both booting slowly, and once booted, everything run so slowly).

Then I followed advice from Eodun to backup and deleted the andboot folder, and put back a new andboot folder from the FRX04 plus the new system.ext2 file from the FRX05, and put back the data.img and the calibration file.

Then boot it up, it runs normally now. Everything seems to be back normal, it runs smoothly and may be a bit faster than FRX04, but not really significant faster.
I was glad it runs normally again and could pick up the old data.img, so I did not need to reconfigure everything.

Camera does not work for me. Eodun, it seems you just mentioned few more steps to get it working? Can you give more details on those steps?

I also notice the startup file did not have the rel_path=andboot anymore.
But it seems no problem at all, mine runs fine without it.

hmm.. i downloaded the kernel but have not figure out how to expand the tar file and get the kernel file out of it (I don't have linux). Perhaps I should wait until they release a full bundle of FRX05.

First boot:
Get's to home screen. Started removing widgets, and at the last one (search bar) the phone froze.
Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.

Second boot:
Boots fine until lock screen. When unlocking phone it had removed all home screen widgets.
Went to APN settings to remove the defaults loaded from SIM which are wrong, but phone froze as soon as i touched the menu button inside APN properties.
Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.

Third boot:
This time without SIM since the problem with the second boot so closely resembled the freeze of the froyo x red first boots issue.
Boots into lock screen. Straight to APN settings. No freeze
On to Wifi settings. Setup and connected in no time at all!
Setup Gmail account. Synchronized without problems.
Went through most other settings without any problems. Happy to see the time-zone issue is now fixed
Read some email. Wifi is working great, just like before. Wanted to play some music but realized there were no mp3's on the sd...
Oh well, time to put in the SIM. Phone shut down 'as designed'.

Fourth boot:
With SIM, also put some apps to install in designated folder (including ZEAM) and some mp3's in a separate folder.
Boots into lock screen. Unlocked and set ZEAM as default launcher. Loads fine. Very responsive and fluid. (i turn all animation OFF)
Played some music: stutters unbearably...
Disabled Wifi, opened an email to connect 3G. Message opens, but (probably) prefetched because there's no 3G icon in the notification bar.
...Freeze...
Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.
Maybe i hadn't switched on 3G in WinMo before this boot, don't remember or know if it's still needed. Turned it on just in case before the

Fifth boot:
Just to see if audio is ok without Wifi. (i had this with some other kernel, don't remember which one, really should start keeping those logs)
While watching the androids fly through the boot animation it hit me: i never put the dot next to the APN after inserting the SIM again...
Freezes after i pull down notifications...
No waiting this time.
No changes, just a

Lucky number 7 or tie-breaker?
Removed the OC from startup.txt, even though it's 'only' at 600Mhz and never gave me problems with other builds.
Boots fine, unlocks fine. Into settings to find the default APNs are back alongside the one i put there myself and the dot next to the wrong one.
Put the dot where it should be, deleted first excess APN, deleted second excess APN and freeze...

One more time...
YES! The 3G icon is there.
BUT! Still stuttering the audio.
Check out the camera though before swapping kernels: it loads.
After taking one picture i get an all black viewfinder. Phone's not frozen because it vibrates when pushing the virtual buttons. Back button does nothing, but it let's me turn off the screen and back on again to find the lock screen. Camera not running anymore according to task killer. Try again...
Now it let's me take pictures. AND record video, with sound. The first picture i tried to take is not in the Gallery.

Conclusion:
Although it took me 8 boots to finally have this FRX05 system.ext2 running, it runs very well once it does. Praise for implementation of the camera in the last kernel, pics and video with sound, hooray!
But because of the audio, this kernel is not for me.
I'll try once to get it running with the 1255 kernel and otherwise it's back to GBX0A for me.

I always have to let settle down and load everything (just wait 2-3min) after a boot. After that, I have none of the problems you describe, though I don't play music and don't know about the stuttering (sure it's there, as it's a problem with battery meter). Oh, and I don't use 3G...

You must have something around that makes your device behave weirdly.

First thing is OC, I never felt that it made my phone run faster, but to decrease stability.

Also, if you tried many builds, one thing I'd do is to beckup, full format SD with HP format tool and restore.

I just did the kernel swap to 1255 and the audio stuttering is gone, but of course so is camera functionality. I'll try to put in the libs from viruscrazy's thread to see if it works sometime tomorrow. For now i'll just fully charge the battery and see how long it lasts. I had GBX0A running for over 12 hours without charging with this same kernel.

Quote:

You must have something around that makes your device behave weirdly.

Well, yes. That would be me

I haven't put back the OC, and like you said, i can't really tell the difference. I'll just leave it standard for now.
I've made backups of working FRX04 and GBX0A builds with everything on them, because i format all the time

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